Introduction
Educational Background
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Charter College of Education

Lawson, V Bush
Professor/Director, UCI/CSULA Joint Doctoral Program, Educational Leadership

Office: KH2049
Phone: (323) 343-4269
FAX: (323) 343-4252
Email: lbush2@calstatela.edu

INTRODUCTION

My research interests include African American Gender-Role Development (Sociocultural Historical Analyses), African American Educational History, African American Family Studies, Critical Educational Theory, and Alternative Pedagogies and Schooling. I have been a school principal, an educator for Spirit of Manhood, and the director/founder of the Imani Saturday Academy (a program that provides K-12 Black students with instruction in Math/Science, Language Arts, African History, and Martial Arts). In November of 1999 I published my first book entitled Can Black Mothers Raise Our Sons? Personally speaking, I am a husband and a father.

Research Interests

Representative Professional Activities

Date

Publications
2008, August 5 More than gatekeepers: Counselors, African-American males, and college access. Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
2007 Apologia for K.W.: A brief tale of wounded love, schools, and being Black in America. Multicultural Education Magazine,15(2), 7-12.
2007 African American alumni feelings of attachment to a predominately white research-intensive university. College Student Journal 41(1), 203-216.
2006 The collective unconscious: New thoughts on the existence of independent Black institutions. The Journal of Pan African Studies 1(6), 48-66 (http://www.jpanafrican.com).
2005 Stopping the stereotypes. Black Issues in Higher Education, 22 , (13), 66.
2005 Black male achievement and the community college. Community College Week , p.4. [a reprinted invited article from Black Issues in Higher Education].
2005 Don’t ask and we won’t tell: A case for institutional accountability regarding African American Male achievement in California Community Colleges. Black Issues in Higher Education, 22(2), 44.
2004 How Black mothers participate in the development of manhood and masculinity: What do we know about Black mothers and their sons? Journal of Negro Education,(73)4, 381-391.
2004

Leading schools through culturally responsive inquiry. In F. English (Ed.), Sage Handbook of Educational Leadership (pp. 269-296). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2004, April/May “Beware of false prophets” (and promises): African American males and California community colleges. Community College Journal, (74)5 36-39.
2004

Access, school choice, and independent Black institutions: A historical perspective.  Journal of Black Studies, 34(3) 386-401.

2002 School choice: An opportunity to build independent Black institutions? Journal of Communications and Minority Issues, 7(1) 9-15
2002 It takes a village: The retention of students of color in predominantly white colleges. NASAP Journal, 5(1), 40-49.
2002 Standing in the gap: A model for establishing African American male intervention programs within public schools. Educational Horizons, 80(3), 140-146.
2001 Magnet schools: Desegregation or resegregation? Students’ voices from inside the walls. American Secondary Education, 29(3), 33-50.
2001 Standardized testing: For richer or poorer, for democracy or meritocracy? Connections: Journal of Principal Development and Preparation, 3, 15-19.
2000

Black mothers/Black sons: A critical examination of the social science literature.  Western Journal of Black Studies, 24(3), 145-154.

2000

Solve for X: Black women + Black boys = X.  Journal of African American Men, 5(2), 31-53.

1999  Can Black mothers raise our sons?  Chicago: African American Images.
1999

Am I a man?: A literature review engaging the sociohistorical dynamics of Black manhood in the United States. Western Journal of Black Studies, 23(1), 49-57.
1997

Independent Black institutions in America: A rejection of schooling, an opportunity for education?  Urban Education, 32(1), 98-116. 

1995

Africentric independent Black institutions: A means to social justice? In A. Darder (Ed.), Bicultural Studies in Education: Transgressive discourses of resistance and possibility (pp. 91-105).  The Institute for Education in Transformation: Claremont, CA.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D. Education 5/98
Claremont Graduate School
Claremont, CA

MA Guidance and Counseling 6/94
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA

BS Human Development 6/93
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA

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